Happy Birthday Middle Age Quotes & Sayings

Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices - taking advantage of our freedom of speech - who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do. — Nat Hentoff

Verily this is the very crown of my misfortunes, that men's opinions for the most part look not to real merit, but to the event; and only recognise foresight where Fortune has crowned the issue with her approval. — Boethius

When you encounter another person ... it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it ... I am reminded of this precious instruction by my own great failure to live up to it recently ... — Marilynne Robinson

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way. — Ian Fleming

Never forget, son, when you represent Texas, always go first class. — James A. Michener

The corporation as it now exists, with armies of salaried workers in identical cubes, will gradually disappear. — Barry Libert

How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all. — William Congreve

Strong female leads make more of an impact in the U.K. than in Denmark. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show. — Ranbir Kapoor

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure. — William Arthur Ward

It's not just land that is broken, but more importantly, our relationship to land. — Robin Wall Kimmerer

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. — Nisargadatta Maharaj